Cocaína

Synopsis of Cocaína

«Cocaína» is the novel by Daniel Jiménez, published by Galaxia Gutenberg in hardcover (192 pages, in Spanish).

Madrid, 2013. Daniel spends New Year's Eve locked in a cold house with two cats and three grams of cocaine, unable to finish the novel he is writing. To keep from sinking, he starts a diary in the second person where he portrays his conflicted relationships with friends, his family situation, and a stark vision of the world. Addiction becomes the mirror of job insecurity and the failure of a comfortable society, in a story of redemption told without concessions.

First edition published on January 13, 2016. Part of the Narrativa collection from Galaxia Gutenberg.

For readers of contemporary fiction seeking a raw and irreverent novel about disillusionment and survival.